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friendly reminder that Harry Potter

at eleven, was described by his teachers as ‘bright’

at the same age, according to the Sorting Hat: “Not a bad mind, either. There’s talent, oh my goodness, yes” and “You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head”

mastered the challenging Patronus Charm at thirteen and proceeded to teach it at fifteen

resisted the Imperius Curse at fourteen and soon learned to throw it off completely, even when cast by the incredibly powerful Voldemort

also at fourteen, learned to cast a powerful Accio Charm

at fifteen, was training other students

at the same age, under extreme stress, tested as ‘exceeds expectations’ or ‘outstanding’ in every subject that required actual magic (including the dreaded Potions)

same age, cast a briefly effective Cruciatus Curse

at sixteen, became a star Potions student simply by following superior instructions

at seventeen, successfully cast the Imperius Curse on his first try, and used it repeatedly

at the same age, cast a successful Cruciatus Curse

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easy and stress-free guide!

Turn off your brain and go one-by-one. It's so easy and much less scary than you think!

Go HERE and enter your zip code

Pick up your phone, and call anybody listed as a representative, not a senator

You'll be asked for some identifying information. that's normal! you need to be their constituent.

Say the following (leave out the LGBT part if your rep is republican): I want [REPRESENTATIVE] to vote No on KOSA, with the reasons being its massive privacy issues, its potential to harm LGBT communities, and infringe on our freedom of speech.

And you're done!

It's that easy, and the person you'll be talking to will just be a kindly older lady or a tired intern. And the best part? They have to listen to you if you call!

Do not assume others will do this for you.

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h/d microfic: stud by troye sivan

part of my drarry x spotify wrapped venture: you can read the previous one here.

warnings/tags: trans realisations, dysphoria, changing pronouns, not liking sex until it's t4t sex, amazing t4t sex that changes your perception of yourself and also reality, descriptions of afab genitalia especially trans cocks bc they are actually so powerful <3

After the war, Draco decides to fuck.

She’d avoided intimacy during the war for obvious reasons, but now, in the fading aftermath, she decides she can - and should - fuck.

It does not go well.

On her first attempt with Theo, he goes to cup her breasts, and she slaps him before she realises what she’s done. In bed with Oliver Wood, he calls her a good girl and she nearly gouges his eyes out. She takes Pansy up on her long-standing offer of experimentation and it feels less dangerous, but just as anticlimactic, as sex with men.

It’s classic Draco, really: something that should have been empowering and rebellious and fun is now just another way she’s disappointed herself.

She starts to think that perhaps she just doesn’t like fucking. Surely it’s not meant to feel like such a mental exercise, like she has to put all her focus into pretending her body isn’t really there, like it isn’t her breasts and hips and vagina being touched.

Perhaps she is too damaged, or too repressed, or just too cowardly to be touched.

But she still, inexplicably, craves it. Even though the reality is painful and awkward and not at all what she wants, she still craves to be touched in the way she imagines it could be done.

Just when she thinks she might stop fucking, Harry Potter comes out.

She sees him for the first time in person at Ginny and Blaise’s housewarming. He’s sitting on the counter with a bottle of lager, laughing at something Luna is saying. His shirt is snug across his new, flat chest. His jaw is squarer, and facial hair is starting to creep across it. It’s suddenly impossible to imagine him any other way. 

Draco stares at him all night, and when she can bear it no longer, she corners him in the bathroom. 

‘You look good,’ she says in lieu of a greeting, and he flushes.

They go to his place, and quicker than she can process, everything changes.

He takes off his shirt and she runs her hands over the raised, tight lines on his chest, licks over his new nipples. He takes off his pants and shows her his cock, stroking over it so that it protrudes, swollen and perfect, from between his lips. While she sucks on it, she hears him whisper you’re made to take me, and then she’s suddenly desperate and shaky, aching to be touched in a way she never has. 

He buckles the strap around his square hips, lets her choose the cock she wants, fucks her and then uses his fingers until she has her first ever orgasm, shuddering and gasping into his hair.

Draco knows who he is by the end of it.

It seems impossible that it should be so easy. That all it takes is seeing his body against Harry’s to understand this huge hunger that’s always followed him around, insatiable and incurable.

But of course Draco is this. Of course Harry would be the one to hold the mirror up.

In the weeks that follow, Harry teaches him how to use tape, and offers to cut his hair, and one day Draco will take him up on it. Perhaps he will use gel like Harry does, or get surgery, he isn’t sure.

He’s not in any rush. For now, they fuck like boys do, and Draco is exactly who he wants to be.

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Hey, if you’re not as mentally quick as you used to be because of your illness- that’s okay. If you’re can’t think as fast or handle as many tasks that’s okay. You aren’t stupid, you aren’t unintelligent, and you aren’t less worthy of love or respect. It’s okay that your brain won’t or can’t go back to how it used to be. It’s different now, but it’s okay.

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alone (again)

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Some of you really miss the understanding that all sex, from vanilla to casual to depraved kink, should be rooted in safety and respect.

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if u feel the first cramp and think "i dont need a painkiller yet, itll pass" ? that the devil speaking, take that painkiller immediately

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Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

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Rain Dove is working to gather funds to help get five children who are recent amputees out of Gaza. These kids will be accompanied by a trusted adult, so they are looking to evacuate ten people total! (words here borrowed from thecorybush on ig stories)

This evacuation has special permissions, and because of that, they only have a short window (less than a month) to raise the money. They have emphasized that since Trump won, that window is even smaller.

Rain Dove is an activist and aid worker who helped evac people from Gaza before the border was closed and has been supporting refugees in Egypt since.

Most the info they have posted about this is in their ig stories!

They need $7800 usd more to be able to evac 10 people from Gaza

Venmo

Paypal

Rain's Instagram

Check out their ig stories! They explain this much better than I am and you'll be able to get the info from the source. I'll add screenshoots from their ig when I get home since my tumblr mobile doesn't let me post pictures

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In case any Americans are not aware of this: the rest of the world is FUCKING TERRIFIED of how this election is going to go. If trump wins, it affects more than just America. If trump wins, it will fuck so many other countries in so many ways.

So first of all, PLEASE VOTE. The rest of the world doesn't get to vote in your election, but we do get directly impacted by your election, so please do what we can't, and vote.

Secondly, remember that you're not just voting for America. You're voting on behalf of the all the countries that will be impacted by this election.

Please, for the love of God, vote blue, and save not just America from a second trump term, but the whole goddamn world.

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Harry makes a shitty joke about pirates loving booty, and Draco decides enough is enough

Happy Halloween! 👻

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Sometimes being the mum who exists in fandom spaces leads to awkward, even concerning, conversations. Such as the one which happened this morning. The mum of my daughter's best mate asked me if one of their mutual friends had sent her a specific message. This message was a link to a fic on ao3, if this had been a G rated fic this conversation would not have happened. It was not G rated. It was an E rated fic. Our kids aren't even 12 yet. As it happens, both of our kids have their internet access heavily locked down and monitored. They have phones because of how their school manages homework. The mutual friend, however, is not so monitored. Or she wasn't, given what her mum found she's about to be. This kid had found a fandom, joined it, and found it chock full of antis. The fic had been sent to her by one of them as an example of the sort of terrible people out there who need to be harassed and attacked because they wrote a smutty story.

Someone thought it was appropriate to send written porn to an 11 year old to encourage her to attack the author.

This resulted in a very awkward conversation where I had to explain to multiple horrified parents the anti culture that is becoming so prevalent. The fact that there are adults who use that purity message to groom kids. The way they escalate and how it bleeds into real life. One parent told me she'd wondered why her 14 year old was suddenly concerned about the two year age gap between her parents. The more I explained, the more absolutely ludicrous it sounded and the more baffled these poor mums looked. More than once I was told "but the characters aren't real, it's really weird but it isn't hurting anyone". Which is the point. The fictional situation isn't hurting anyone. The person who sent porn to an 11 year old is.

Was the person who sent it the author? Doubtful, that thing was tagged in the extreme. Was the person who sent it an adult? Almost certainly. The parent who's child received the original message has found more concerning stuff and gone to the police, but from the language the person doing the sending was in the US. We aren't. Did my daughter receive it? No, she isn't interested in that fandom and therefore wouldn't have bothered with it. Is this the fault of the author? No, they didn't send the link, they didn't ask to be harassed, they wrote a story and put it on ao3, the website created in response to rampant censorship and designed to allow for all kinds of fiction. Is this the fault of the parents? Partially, they should have been looking at their daughter's internet use and clocked what was happening sooner. Is this the fault of the child? No, she's 11, she didn't know better.

This has been a difficult day. Multiple parents have had their eyes opened to parts of fandom culture they had no idea existed. And the thing of it is, they aren't concerned about the why of anti rhetoric. They don't care about the adults writing about teens or rape or incest or torture or any of the rest, because they looked at the clearly tagged and rated fics and figured that it worked the same as a warning on any streaming service. They only cared because some utterly vile individual decided to expose their child to something this girl might not have looked at for years.

Proshippers did not cause what I have spent afternoon helping several sets of parents navigate. Antis did. Normally I'm fairly quiet about the whole debate because I just want to get on with my life and share my experiences. Today I got dragged into that mess in my every day life and the adults in the equation didn't react the way Antis like to think they would. They didn't condemn the author. They condemned the anti who shared the work with a preteen.

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The Boop and The Boop, A Second Coming are the best thing about 2024. Convince me otherwise

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They are once again mice, this time for Halloween

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this is me btw if you even care. please share your icecreams with me